The obesity asylum

A thought experiment! Letís say we took one hundred morbidly obese persons, in the 400 lbs. + category and put them in a closed camp or asylum and let them do a modified fast of around 5 -700 calories per day for one whole year. No obligatory physical activities. Outside the camp we put armed guards to control that no illegal food will be smuggled into the camp! What would the output be after one year? how many would lose their weight, stop using their medications etc., or even get serious ill, eventually die due to complications of too little food? We know that at least one obese person has completed a water fast for one whole year, so why should not a very fat person survive one year on letís say 3 daily cans of tuna in water, all the raw fibrous green vegetables he could eat, one cube of chicken broth, one multivitamin pill and a tablespoon of fish-oil and plenty of water, coffee and tea? After all, morbidly obese people carry so much food with them stored in their own bodyfat right?

Wow, you might have a winning reality show concept there, since people must be getting inured to the level of abuse on the Biggest Loser by now. Nothing like showing those fatties who's boss by rounding them up in prison camps and forcing them to starve into thinness at gunpoint.

ďIf I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.Ē --Audre Lorde

Probably not! But let's say that my family signed a declaration that I could not longer take care of myself, and that I would eat myself to death if not going to the obesity asylum! Let's say the whole issue is in the future some hundred years from now, with laws to save morbide obese persons from destroying themselves...